Many in the Halo 3 community had predicted a closely contested MILK LAN event for Halo 3 this weekend as The Imperial and Fair Frag went into the event with first and second seed respectively. Many also doubted that convincing performances could be produced by a team who had effectively had one week of practice together given Andrew 'Omega' Charalambous' premature exit from Crack Clan (shown right with ex-player Omega, photo from Cadred.org) recently due to console hardware failure. LowLandLions captain Adam 'Infern0s' Baig had stepped in as a last-minute replacement and together Crack proved that it wouldn't be close, it wouldn't be hard, and that 'many' would be wrong.

All of the top three sides started easily in the tournament, steamrolling their way into the Winner Bracket Semi Finals. Given first seed, The Imperial were facing mythiX Gaming who they comfortably beat (well, destroyed would be a more accurate word here, as TI decimated mX 50-16 on a Team Slayer game) 3-1. Crack Clan faced Fair Frag however - and as aforementioned, you would've thought it would be a close game, but you would be wrong. Crack wrapped Fair Frag up and sent them straight down into the Loser Bracket in a relatively short series.

The Winner Bracket Final saw Crack face TI; TI won the first CTF game 3-0, but the second map was a lot closer. Losing 48-46 on Pit TS, TI managed to push for the rockets but it was to be advantage wasted as they were unfortunately swept up and Crack didn't look back for the rest of the day, taking the subsequent two maps for a 3-1 victory. TI vs FF looked to be another close encounter, but TI looked to move their momentum on with a nifty 3-1 win over FF that sent them packing.

One would hope this article is very interesting thus far, however sometimes it doesn't all end that greatly; Crack comfortably took the Grand Final against TI 3-0, and thus won the title and a couple of hundred euros each. It's always a lot more exciting when it's close, isn't it?